Chapter 128 – 128. The Duke’s Eighth Sabotage (2)
– One –
Around the time when Regal was having a meeting with the butler.
In the courtyard of a secluded mansion on the outskirts of the island, a middle-aged man and a handsome middle-aged woman were sitting across from each other at a table.
“Honey… Can you stop stepping out of the imperial faction…?”
“What do you mean, ma’am?!”
A scream erupts from the man.
“No… That’s…”
“I asked what you meant, ma’am!”
A man interrogates a woman in a stern voice.
She continued to hesitate, unable to give a proper answer to the man’s words.
“Why do you stop talking and keep your mouth shut? If you can’t explain what you just said, I will never forgive you, even if you are my wife!”
Shiver.
A woman cries silently at a man’s scream.
Seeing her tears, the man hesitates.
“Heh, hehe… You, too…”
“No, I’m not going to cry…”
“Huh … I’m so scared, honey …”
“… What is it that scares you, madam? Tell me more.”
“Keuk, uh uh…”
The woman was unable to speak easily, and was only vomiting out a silent cry.
The man was touching the back of her elongated head and the tip of her nose as if he was embarrassed.
“Madam, I apologize for raising my voice to you. I suddenly heard something so absurd that I lost my temper in excitement for a moment. I’m sorry. I will never raise my voice in front of you again. So I’ll explain it step by step. ?”
“The Countess of Guinness, the Viscountess Lebesvere, the daughter of the Marquis of Bex, even the nine-year-old daughter of Baroness Krombacher… They are all, all dead…”
Her deceased women, like her, often had tea parties.
At the serial deaths of familiar people, she felt a vivid fear.
“… Is it because of the serial death cases that have occurred over the past few days? As a result of the first investigation, those cases were all concluded as accidents, right?”
The woman shakes her head.
“Huh… It’s… It’s not a death case… It’s definitely, it’s definitely murder or assassination!”
“It’s not the conclusions reached by the Imperial Special Forces and the Imperial Central Intelligence Agency, not by anyone else. They even conducted an investigation with a forensic expert from the Imperial Central Research Institute. Even so, can you doubt the results of that investigation? “
“Lies! They are all lying!”
“Ma’am, haven’t you read too many novels? Or maybe you’ve been too absorbed in the conspiracy theories that are popular among women these days…”
“It’s not like that! It’s not!”
She cries out
Her screams were thick with fear.
“I… I saw it! I saw a stranger coming out of Countess Guinness’s bed!”
“… What do you mean by that? No, ma’am. Tell me more.”
Gulp.
A woman swallows dry saliva.
Her pupils trembled anxiously to and fro.
Her hands were trembling, her fists clenched.
Her face and neck were covered with cold sweat.
Whoever saw it, she had the appearance of a prey that felt a threat to her own safety.
“The day before yesterday, I fell asleep early in the evening and was awakened by the sound of rain.”
She confides her own eyewitness account to her man, in her voice still unhinged from her cries.
“I remember her wife going to bed unusually early that day, oh.”
“Yes. I couldn’t sleep at all, so I thought of taking a walk at night, so I drove out in a carriage with her ladies-in-waiting.”
“Then I was in a deep sleep and had no idea.”
“I rode the wagon with the ladies-in-waiting and told the coachman to go anywhere, since I want to go for a walk in the middle of the night.”
“So the coachman went to the vicinity of Earl Guinness’s mansion in search of a quiet place…?”
Men’s eyes narrow.
Because he found a contradiction in her wife’s words.
“Yes, yes…”
The woman flinches.
Her eyes are lost and wander.
“Isn’t the mansion where His Excellency Count Guinness lives adjacent to the central commercial district of the island? It’s a place completely far from a secluded promenade, so why did the coachman go there?”
“That, that’s… It’s raining, it’s raining, so wouldn’t it be because no one seemed to be there…?”
“…”
The man’s eyes narrow.
Her man makes eye contact with her and turns her head around insistently.
However, the woman was desperately avoiding the man’s eyes as she was afraid of what she was so afraid of.
“Isn’t your wife asking the coachman to go there?”
“That is…”
“Should I call the coachman and confront him?”
“…”
She shuts her mouth tight.
And bowed her head.
“Look, ma’am.”
“…”
“Ma’am. Answer me, ma’am.”
“…It’s not that important right now.”
The woman retorts, looking at the teacup still steaming and the tea water not completely cooled.
The man was somehow startled.
He hoped that, for reasons he thought, her wife hadn’t been out in the middle of the night.
“Haa… I like it. For now, let’s assume that the wife is right. Keep talking.”
However, I thought that it was not the right time to inquire about this right now, so for the time being I covered up her contradictions and moved on.
“… As I was passing around the mansion of Count Guinness in a carriage and following a deserted road, I passed the fence on the back side of the mansion.”
“On the back side of the mansion, it must have been close to the annex where the Countess lives.”
The man was certain that his wife had gone there to see if the Countess was asleep.
However, as he said, he did not inquire about it now.
If, for whatever reason, his wife witnessed something related to the Countess’s death, and that could prove that the Countess’s death was due to her murder.
The circumstances of the wife’s infidelity, then, are truly trivial matters.
Because he was a truly loyal subject who could give his all to the emperor.
Along with the Marquis of Caymus, he was a member of the imperial faction who was truly loyal to the imperial family.
“Yes. I must have passed there…”
She looks around her.
She peered here and there out of the corner of her eye, constantly trembling with anxiety.
“I did?”
When she doesn’t immediately follow up on her words, her frustrated man insists.
“Someone jumped out of the Countess’s bedroom window…!”
Her voice was extremely low.
At the same time, she was terrified.
“What, what?! Is that true?”
The man widens her eyes.
“Yes… I swear in front of the goddess-sama’s name, what I saw is unmistakably true…!”
He too starts shaking her hands.
“Bo, aren’t the bedrooms of ordinary housewives on the top floor of the sponsored annex…?”
“That’s right. It’s always there by convention, just like my bedroom.”
“Well, then the Countess’s bedroom should be on the 5th floor…”
The woman nods her head with a white face.
Goosebumps sprouted all over her body, as if she even remembered what she saw that night.
Haha.
Her breathing is rough
The cold sweat she shed was reminiscent of summer monsoon rain.
The condition of men was not very different.
The couple were completely immersed in fear.
“I, I, felt as if I had met eyes with that assailant at that time, the assailant jumping from the bedroom on the 5th floor…!”
“Really?!”
“Yeah… Ever since then, it seems like someone is watching me… I’m so scared…”
It was because if the assassin hiding in the Countess’s bedroom had escaped by jumping from the fifth floor and was not known, it was clear that the assassin would be a high-ranking assassin who could not be labeled as ordinary.
If his wife witnessed an incident involving such a person, and if the assassin noticed the fact, the couple could never be safe from the assassin’s threat.
Gulp.
The man swallows and looks around her in all directions.
The only person he could see was his wife.
If you look around the courtyard, you will see nothing but low shrubs and sparsely branched garden trees.
There is nowhere for an assassin to hide.
“So, did you tell His Excellency Count Guinness right away?”
“No, no. I just ran home…”
“No, why the hell did you hide that important fact? If there was your wife’s testimony, the chain of deaths that are happening in the system right now might not end with a simple accidental death, so why the hell did you pretend not to know?!”
“Huh, huh… That’s… It’s so scary…”
The wife starts crying again.
It wouldn’t have been easy for her to let her know as well.
Her killer spotted her.
She is just an ordinary woman who has nothing to do with her political strife.
While her husband pursues the shadow of the emperor, claiming to be devoted to the country, she is just a noblewoman who lives a little more faithfully to her own instincts and sexual desires than others.
Wheeeee~
The day gets dark.
A sudden wind blows.
The spring weather is unpredictable.
The weather, which was clear just a moment ago, suddenly changes without any warning.
Patter.
Shoot it
Soon, raindrops fall from the sky.
The outdoor tea table where the couple sat facing each other had a parasol hanging down,
Smart.
Rainwater, driven by a sudden wind, splashed a drop or two into their teacups.
But they couldn’t afford to pay attention to such trifles.
“Keuheop, heuuuuu…”
The woman can’t stop crying.
She wanted to get out of this fear as soon as possible.
Men try desperately to calm their boiling fear and regain reason.
It was because there were still more things to be confirmed from her about her relationship.
“Madam, calm down for a moment. I decided not to shout, but then I started shouting again. I heard such a shocking story that I did it without realizing it. I’m sorry.”
“Oh, no, hehe…!”
The woman, unable to speak, continued to lash out.
The man tries to appease her, at least in order to listen to her.
“First, take a sip of tea and calm down. With your wife sobbing like that, I can’t have a proper conversation with you.”
She nods her head with difficulty, her tears streaming down her face.
Horok.
The woman takes a sip of the cooled tea water in an attempt to alleviate her rising fear.
No, maybe she was swallowing her cries.
Hurb.
Her man also drank her tea after her, as if her throat was burning.
The man waits silently for her crying to stop.
Her cries, which leaked out without rest, subsided a little.
“Have you calmed down a bit?”
“Yes, yes…”
“Then, let me ask you one more question. As you say, I will assume that the countess’s death was an elaborately disguised accidental murder. By the way, how does that have to do with secession from the imperial faction?”
She trembles her body
She is seized with fear again.
“I-I’ve been looking for everything…”
“What do you mean?”
“The people who died in the islands this time, uhhh, the people, everyone, uhhhhh… Everyone is the imperial faction…!”
“Really?!”
She nods her head
She follows, reciting the identity of the deceased.
It is certainly.
They were all people with blood ties to the loyalists of the imperial faction.
All of them, including the members of her tea party, which she had recited earlier, were members of imperial noble families.
“Oh, my God…! Why is this fact not known…! Who else knows about this?”
“Oh, I’m still out there…”
“I have to tell everyone right now!”
“All, all, all, all, next, uh, it might be our turn…! So, please…! .”
“That, like that…”
Her lips are blue
The area under her eyes is dark.
Her eyes were bloodshot red.
“Turn it off…! Turn it off!”
A woman continues to cry.
No.
“Eh eh eh …!
It wasn’t that he couldn’t stop crying, it was that he couldn’t breathe.
Her face turns pale
Woowook!
Chii profit!
She bites her neck with her nails.
Her fingernails cut the nape of her own neck.
Long fingernails, a symbol of a noble lady freed from labor, dug into her white, wrinkle-free neck.
Had her fingernails cut her carotid artery,
Chow ah!
Crying!
Gurgling gurgling!
Blood bursts out.
Uncontrollably, the momentum of the blood spurting out is quite ferocious.
“Boo, madam! Madame!”
“Hwa, Hwaang… Uhhhhh!”
She vomits her blood
The blood gushing from the nape of her neck and from her mouth is black.
“Turn it off! Keheh! Gerrrr!”
She closes her eyes as she bites at the foam of her blood.
Shaking.
Burrrr.
The woman’s limbs are twisted arbitrarily.
“Wait, it’s poisoning…!”
She keeps twitching
“Is there anyone there?! Senator! Senator!”
Kudang!
As she fell, her nails were pulled out of her neck.
Push!
Push shush shoot!
A new fountain spouting red water was placed in the courtyard where they were seated.
“No, healers! Priests!”
Pop!
Perong!
The wife’s convulsive eyeballs explode.
“Anyone, heck…!”
The man’s eyes darkened.
He, too, begins to choke.
‘Night… ? Here in the water… ? Everything is frustrating… !’
The man was conscious, but unable to perceive anything around him.
Nothing is visible
I can’t hear anything.
He didn’t know where his hands were or where his feet were.
Kudang.
The sound of something collapsing can be heard from afar.
I don’t know what fell.
Perhaps, the man’s own body may have collapsed.
‘What the hell does that mean… I’m out of breath…’
The man couldn’t accommodate any of his five senses, but he was sure in his head.
He himself would not be much different from his wife’s condition.
He will be dying as well as his wife.
Everything goes away
The senses, the consciousness, sink to the bottom.
It stops
– 2 –
Parr.
Took.
The limbs of the aristocratic man, who had been convulsing for a long time, were scattered on the floor.
It turned into an inedible piece of meat.
Sasak.
Fault.
A pair of men and women in black leather appeared next to him.
Swoop.
Swoop.
They trace the veins of the two corpses.
The pupillary reflex does not need to be checked.
It was because their eyes were turned into a single bloody tear.
“This bitch is definitely dead.”
A woman in leather sentenced a noblewoman to death.
“Here too. Hmm… I didn’t want to kill this bastard…”
At the remark of the man in leather, the woman rolled her eyes.
“Why? Did you even give that bastard an ass? Did you even get a kick?”
“No… That’s not it.”
“Then why?”
“I feel sorry for this asshole.”
The woman’s expression changes strangely.
She asks her man
“Why?”
“Hey, do you have three sons?”
“Uh. You know that.”
“But, all three of them are not the parents of this baby.”
“What?”
Her expression turns to bewilderment.
The man looked as if he was about to cry, as if he was filled with sympathy.
“All three of them are the sons of that crazy galbo bitch who got married with other guys. Even they have different biological fathers.”
“Wow… You really are such a great bitch, aren’t you?”
“Eh. After I found out about it while digging around, did the back of my head feel tingling?”
“Pu-up. Asshole.”
“But, that bastard seemed to know that too.”
“Wow… That’s enough for a real corporal, Hogu?”
“I don’t know if he abandoned his family because he was loyal to the emperor or if he was just an idiot, but he’s pitiful as a real man.”
She snorts her
“He’s just an asshole.”
“Still, if such a bastard gave all his allegiance to him, then he would not have been of great help to him, sometimes I think.”
Her expression turns to cynicism.
“Ha! Bringing in an idiot who can’t take care of his own family on our side is obviously going to be of no help to him. Put aside your unreasonable pity and even clean up after yourself, you bastard. There’s a mountain of things to burn.”
Hijac.
The number of men increases.
The sympathy disappears from his face in an instant, and the empty place is taken by anticipation and joy.
Hee hee. I like being burned alive the best.”
“That’s me too.”
Looking at the man who suddenly changed and smiled, the woman snorted again.
A man in leather looks down at an aristocratic man who has become meat.
His expression instantly turns to sympathy again.
“Mister. I’ll take revenge. I’ll roast all the seeds of adultery that the dog-like bitch bought cheaply. So, just close your eyes in peace.”
“Come quickly, you arson-mad asshole.”
“Huh!”
The man walks towards his mansion, smiling wryly.
A man walks by, waving his hand in the air.
Hurrrr!
The flames follow the man’s hand and dance.
The flames turned into butterflies and landed all over the mansion.
“Quaaaaagh! It’s fire! It’s fire!”
“Run away!”
“Water Sprinkler Car! Where is the Water Water Car?!”
A big commotion breaks out in the mansion.
But the riot will soon be quelled.
“Kuk! Kkeuk!”
“Keeeeeuk!”
“Kheueup!”
The rainwater they drank while running out of the building,
“Ahahahaha! Everyone die! Die!”
It was because death was raining from the poison cloud that the woman in leather had poured out.
It didn’t take long for the mansion to fall into silence, leaving only the noise of burning fire.